Re: Installing a C function into the IDT

The Prisoner <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> I was reading about interrupts, and I got to thinking it would be a
> real neat thing to use interrupts for program-wide exception
> handling.
<snip>
> void malloc_failure();
>
> Say I install this as interrupt slot 42, then I can do:
>
> if(!(p=(int*)malloc(1000*4))) // array of 1000 ints
>   __asm__ ("int $0x42");

Aside from all the "not C", "system specific" answers, what is it that
your idea offers over simply calling the function:

  if(!(p=(int*)malloc(1000*4))) // array of 1000 ints
      malloc_failure();

?  As it stands it just looks like non-standard, system specific
function call.

-- 
Ben.